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Bank Of England | The challenge

There’s a lot of buzz around blockchain. It’s a technology that allows people who don’t know each other to trust a shared record of events. And its potential won’t just impact financial services. Many believe that blockchain could track and verify almost any digital record.

So how would you use it?
What business would you apply it to?
What new product would you create?
Whatever your idea, pitch it to us. You could win a paid internship or a place at our graduate assessment centre.

A host of possibilities

Blockchain’s distributed ledger technology already maintains the Bitcoin network, and keeps a record of all Bitcoin transactions. It’s enabling universities to store and encrypt student qualification records so employers can instantly verify CVs. It’s helping insurance companies crack down on fraud and theft by giving diamonds a digital fingerprint, creating a public ledger that tracks the origin, sale and ownership of the world’s most precious stones.

And many more novel applications are bubbling under. From how we identify individuals or verify the provenance of organic goods, to managing car leases or decentralising crowdfunding services.

The point is that while the technology might include some risks, there are all sorts of far-sighted, game-changing, life-enhancing ideas to pursue. We want to hear about yours.

Event Details

Monthly Bitcoin Meetup at the Effinger coffee bar. There are no organized talks or anything similar, just ourselves exchanging experiences and ideas and having great discussions. Open to everybody. Always

Event Details

Monthly Bitcoin Meetup at the Effinger coffee bar. There are no organized talks or anything similar, just ourselves exchanging experiences and ideas and having great discussions. Open to everybody. Always on the second Tuesday of the month, 19:00 – open-end

Event Details

Our casual Bitcoin Zurich Meetup is for newcomers and veterans alike. Open discussion, no organised speakers or topics. Feel free to discuss all sorts of blockchain topics. Please refrain from investment seeking, sales or unsolicited advertisement of any kind.